"This is the paradox: man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it." -Ernest Becker

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"Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: Find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human." - Anthony Robbins

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“We fight for men and women whose poetry is not yet written but which will presently be as enviable and as renowned as any.” - Robert Gould Shaw

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Sometimes it’s okay to get angry.

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"If you're successful in life, you will win false friends and make true enemies. Succeed anyway, for they will lose in the long run." -- William E. Lewis Jr.

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I woke up, I'm alive.....
The only one on a corpse laden ship.

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I held back my tears and clasped her hand tight while saying goodbye.
Then drew the saw across her wrist to make sure I had something to remember her by.

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“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.” —Buddha.

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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. - Anatole France

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“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” Alan Cohen

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“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing more.” – Les Misérables

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Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human. ― Sui Ishida

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"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born" - Nikola Tesla

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There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." (~Louise Hay)

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"Good things happen when you set your priorities straight." (~Scott Caan)

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